Prescient comments aside, this article reminded me of an Atlantic Wire article that mentioned how Coca-Cola was mainly marketed to white people and Pepsi to black people: A Brief History of Racist Soft Drinks via the Atlantic Wire (January 28, 2013)

I'll also add Fanta originated in Germany so that Coca-Cola could still corner the soft-drink market despite an existing trade embargo on syrup.

Rumor has it that the "Dr." was a legitimate medical/dental practitioner. The soda/pop/soft drink was invented by his prospective son-in-law and the name was bestowed on the drink in an effort to impress him.

They forgot "Dope". As in, "Hey, hand me a Dope." I kid you not, that's the word my grandmother and her siblings used in Middle Georgia (think Middle Earth, with rednecks in place of hobbits). I've also heard of it in other areas of the South (the Virginia Piedmont, Coastal North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina).

They forgot "Dope". As in, "Hey, hand me a Dope." I kid you not, that's the word my grandmother and her siblings used in Middle Georgia (think Middle Earth, with rednecks in place of hobbits). I've also heard of it in other areas of the South (the Virginia Piedmont, Coastal North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina).

The last time I was unfortunate enough to get dragged into a Cici's, I heard a particularly mulletacious mother ask her carnal participation trophy, "Do you wont tay, or do you wont drank?"

2. In Holland and Germany, the Coke bottles have peoples' names on them like "Marloes" and "Jeroen" as part of a weird ad campaign I don't understand, and half-liter bottles of soda/pop go for upwards of 3.50 Euros or about $5.

3. I'm thinking of giving up on soda/pop because it's a stupid habit like posting on Fark.

They forgot "Dope". As in, "Hey, hand me a Dope." I kid you not, that's the word my grandmother and her siblings used in Middle Georgia (think Middle Earth, with rednecks in place of hobbits). I've also heard of it in other areas of the South (the Virginia Piedmont, Coastal North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina).

I noticed that in Jimmy Carter's (Georgia native) memoir. If I recall correctly, he wrote that, as a boy he sold "dopes" and peanuts in Americus, GA.

Within weeks of going on sale, the vicious drink had left an estimated 15,000 to 100,000 people impotent or partially paralyzed for life. The hobbling walk of those crippled by the drink became known as "Jake leg."

Ah, Prohibition.

And it's so comforting to know that they took everything they learned from their experience of driving something underground -- the attention to quality control that results and how organized crime can build vast kingdoms for themselves by making absolute mountains of money -- and managed to bring it all unchanged to their approach to drugs.